New Orleans after the promises poverty, citizenship, and the search for the Great Society /

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Huvudskapare: Germany, Kent B., 1971-
Institutionell skapare: ebrary, Inc
Materialtyp: Elektronisk E-bok
Språk:engelska
Publicerad: Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2007.
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Innehållsförteckning:
  • Introduction: Something new for the South?
  • A European-African-Caribbean-American-Southern city
  • Establishing the early war on poverty
  • Building community action
  • Challenging the establishment and the color line
  • Making better and happier citizens
  • Defusing the southern powder keg
  • Making workers and jobs
  • Making groceries
  • Making a model New Orleans
  • The thugs united and the politics of manhood
  • Women, welfare, and political mobilization
  • Acronyms, liberalism, and electoral politics, 1969-1971
  • Panthers, snipers, and the limits of liberalism
  • Conclusion: Prelude to Katrina.